The Labor enquirer., 1887-10-29
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The Union Labor Club held its
regular weekly meeting on
"Wednesday evening At old Unity
church. The enthusiasm display
ed augurs well for the success of
the Labor candidates at the COM
ing election. as the Doodle ele-
ment is so beautifully broken up
and divided that it cannot hope
to win.
Miss Mccarthy was asked to
favor the meeting with a talk. She
took for her subject the so-called
charities and almsgiving associa-
tions Of Denver and pointed out
the difference between them and
the charity of justice as taught by
the scientist, Jesus Christ.
Touching on prohibition the
lady said that if whiskey we're
abolished the miseries of the poor
would drive them to the. .substitu-
ton of some other intoxicant or
drug to help them forget present
poverty and degradation.
A prohibitionist in the audience
said that his party proposed to fit
men for intelligent voters. He
however did not see his way to a
complete solution of the indus
trial question through prohibition
alone. 1t did not go far enough
toward Socialism to suit him. But
the people will meet soon, after
the various questions have been
discussed, and the, Right will be
decided on.
Henry Cohen said that thor
ough uprooting of old parties and
old economic ideas must take
place before the situation of the
workers would be improved.
he new regime was coming-and
coming soon-and new ideas and
purer-minded men were in de-
mand.
id. Macdonald thought that
the great want at present was the
arriving at the great basic truths
underlying our industrial idea;
prohibition was but a side issue,
whiskey drinking an effect of a
great general cause.
Louis Culmsee said he was in
clined toward prohibition but fail
ed to see where or how it would
or could secure to the producer
the full reward of his toll.
Byron Millett believed the liq-
uor business should be under the
direct control of the government.
More men are ruined by the poi
sons sold under the name of whis-
key than by real whiskey. Whis-
key drinking was not the cause
but a result of poverty and de-
grading conditions. Referring to
local politics Mr.. Millett said that
on the ticket of the Union Labor
Party could be found the names
of none but genuine workers; no
lawyers or discarded political
hacks and failures from the ranks
of the old decaying Doodle parties.
The principles underlying the
Union Labor Party platform were
those of right and justice. So
ciety is diseased, the world is in a
ferment, the churches instead of
teaching morals try to hold the
people in check, and teach that
it is the duty of the workers to
obey the powers that be.
E. o. Cochrane referred briefly
to the subject of modern charita-
Bile institutions and pointed out
their degrading influence.
Mr.. Jack thought that poverty
could not be eradicated SO long
as such gambling institutions as
chambers of commerce and Wal
street were allowed to exist.
| D. M. Leahy said it was an oft
told tale that both democratic anc
republican parties are essentially
rotten. Those parties themselve.
know that their life is about ended
and they are working thell
SC hemes in new ways. The "peo